OUR HOME FOLKS

Listlessly threshed in a careless court

The poor, plain tale of a home was told,

Furnishing food for the lawyers’ sport

And a jest at the fond and the foolish old.

The counsel said as he winked an eye,

“Deeded the farm to their only son;

And after’twas deeded they didn’t die

Quite as quick as they should have done.”

Drearily dragged the homely case,